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mikey2024

mikey2024

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Hi it's been a very long time since I had a gaming pc (since cs source)
So I am very out of touch with how things are currently, if you can please enlighten me it would be very much appreciated.

First of all with how things have advanced in terms of mobile gaming power etc in recent years can laptops genuinely compete with traditional towers now?

What would be the benefit of towers compared to laptops, in terms of functionality rather than modularity?

What sort of specifications would I need to have in order to be comparable to ps5?
I'm happy with 1080p tbh but 2k would be nice too

And lastly is it possible to have a small form factor maybe even horizontal tower like ps5 sort of size?

Games of interest would be destiny 2, Helldivers 2

Thanks
 
Can a modern gaming laptop compete with a desktop? Yes, performance wise at least, absolutely. However, the laptop will be heavy, loud and hot as well as being much more expensive for an equivalent specification. You'll also be stuck with the track pad and often dreadful keyboard.
 
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mikey2024 said:
Hi it's been a very long time since I had a gaming pc (since cs source)
So I am very out of touch with how things are currently, if you can please enlighten me it would be very much appreciated.

First of all with how things have advanced in terms of mobile gaming power etc in recent years can laptops genuinely compete with traditional towers now?

What would be the benefit of towers compared to laptops, in terms of functionality rather than modularity?

What sort of specifications would I need to have in order to be comparable to ps5?
I'm happy with 1080p tbh but 2k would be nice too

And lastly is it possible to have a small form factor maybe even horizontal tower like ps5 sort of size?

Games of interest would be destiny 2, Helldivers 2

Thanks
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With regards to mobile gaming things have come on leaps and bounds, you can handheld devices like the Asus Ally which will give you 60 FPS 1080p gaming at medium (ish) settings in a lot of titles. I not really up on gaming laptops, generally you pay a premium for the hardware as the mobile chips used in the CPU and GPU are taken form the best silicon that draws the lowest amount of power.

Towers vs Laptops - In terms of overall functionality there's not much difference but a Tower will give your better overall performance. The biggest difference is a Tower will have better cooling and airflow which is important for things like heat and noise, the better your hardware is cooled the higher and longer the hardware can boost to give you better performance. Just note thought the naming convention for graphics cards in laptops isn't like for like to it's desktop counterparts when it comes to actual hardware specs, laptop versions will have fewer cores, a smaller bus, less ROPS etc but uses less power so be careful when looking at specs. As a rule thumb laptop GPU's will perform as well as the desktop version at tier below i.e. a laptop RTX 4070m will be around a RTX 4060 desktop in terms of performance.

A PC that's comparable to a PS5? Something like a Ryzen 3800X, 16Gb 3600 DDR4 Ram and a RX 6700XT graphics card would be as close as you can get to a PS5 but slightly more powerful.

ITX is the smallest form factor on the PC, plenty of nice cases out there but they look like a pain in the backside to build due to cabling. Just bear in mind ITX is far from mainstream so it carries a premium.
 
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Freddie1980 said:
A PC that's comparable to a PS5? Something like a Ryzen 3800X, 16Gb 3600 DDR4 Ram and a RX 6700XT graphics card would be as close as you can get to a PS5 but slightly more powerful.
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Remember though can't just look at how powerful the gpu is in numbers terms, so to speak, as the games are supremely well optimised for the ps5/xsx, whereas on a pc, games have to cater for so many different specs etc, optimisation goes out the window, so generally speaking you have to go fort a more powerful gpu to get similar performance to balance it out.... I remember reading article about it, but no way I'll find in now..can say from playing life of pie on my pc with 7800x3d and 3070ti thgrough tv, it was a horrible experience, laggy and jerky, whereas infinitely playable on the XSX, which has a less powerful gpu...conversely, grounded played way better on the pc than the xbox...so guess goes in roundabouts, but I think that's more cpu side of things as game slowed on the xbox when crafting lots of bombs/arrows etc
Do remember a yt where a pc gamer was suprised how well an xsx played compared to his 3090 at the time
 
mikey2024 said:
I'm happy with 1080p tbh but 2k would be nice too

And lastly is it possible to have a small form factor maybe even horizontal tower like ps5 sort of size?
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Craig_d1 said:
Remember though can't just look at how powerful the gpu is in numbers terms, so to speak, as the games are supremely well optimised for the ps5/xsx, whereas on a pc, games have to cater for so many different specs etc, optimisation goes out the window, so generally speaking you have to go fort a more powerful gpu to get similar performance to balance it out.... I remember reading article about it, but no way I'll find in now..can say from playing life of pie on my pc with 7800x3d and 3070ti thgrough tv, it was a horrible experience, laggy and jerky, whereas infinitely playable on the XSX, which has a less powerful gpu...conversely, grounded played way better on the pc than the xbox...so guess goes in roundabouts, but I think that's more cpu side of things as game slowed on the xbox when crafting lots of bombs/arrows etc
Do remember a yt where a pc gamer was suprised how well an xsx played compared to his 3090 at the time
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Historically consoles have been way more efficient when it comes to hardware utilisation but these days most games are based on a version of DX12 which is which is a lot lighter then previous versions and close to the metal. I believe the Xbox uses the same APi.

Consoles have other tricks up there selves to close the gap such as dynamic scaling and checkerboard rendering. If your not looking for it or don't have the PC version running at native next to it your likely miss it but it's there.
 
MissChief said:
True but that's also something else to carry around too.
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that is what a good laptop bag is for
with my laptop, I carry a 60% keyboard, and a viper mini razer mouse, along with the laptop,all in a swiss laptop bag, np at all, beats using a trackpad, and a crappy keyboard imho
 
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